HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The Constitution of Idaho was adopted August 6, 1889, and ratified by the people that November. Composed of twenty-one articles, it has been amended over one hundred times; however, the Idaho Constitution has never undergone a major revision and remains in essentially the same form as when it was created. On August 6, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that has restricted black voter registration. For years, the Hudson's Bay Company had been a stabilizing force on the Native Americans who lived near the Snake River--but when the British fur-trading company pulled out in the early 1850s, attacks on emigrants increased substantially. The best-known incident happened near Massacre Rocks in what is now Southern Idaho. On August 9th, 1862, an attack came without warning, killing eight men and one woman. President Richard M. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, and Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States. On August 3, 1929, Idaho's ninth governor James H. Hawley died. Also known as one of the West's outstanding criminal lawyers, he was an attorney for the miners' union at the time his clients organized the Western Federation of Miners. He later served as the special prosecutor for the state when the mine labor war erupted with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Warner and continued in this capacity during the conspiracy trials that followed the assassination of Governor Frank Steuenberg.